Bonera: "It's a big step towards our ambitions"

A.C. MILAN OFFICIAL

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00:00How do you see the future of Milan Futuro?

00:06I was introduced to this project with the idea of training players

00:12and making sure that these players grow from a human and footballing point of view

00:17and that they are closer to the requirements of the first team.

00:22So this is the main input.

00:24Obviously, through positive results, this path will be more or less simple.

00:30We will have difficulties, but I think we are structured from the top.

00:36They are giving me all the means to make this path as challenging as possible.

00:44Admittedly, we are aware that there will be difficulties,

00:48but these must give us strength and motivation.

00:54There is a lot of motivation, a lot of emotion,

00:58for those who see me as the direct manager of this new project,

01:04which makes me very proud, because I will have a great responsibility

01:10to make the players grow and make sure that they can go to the first team

01:18and play in a more prepared and ready way, compared to the spring season,

01:26which is an intermediate season that prepares the young players,

01:31but in my opinion there is still a step of difference compared to the requirements of the first team.

01:37The goal is to make the players grow.

01:41When this idea was proposed to me, I accepted it with great pride.

01:49I think it is a fundamental step for a club like ours, so ambitious,

01:54because Milan Futuro will be something innovative.

01:58There will be room, I believe, in the future, not too far away,

02:02for other teams to enter this category.

02:06It is certainly a great responsibility, but it is something that I felt I had to do.

02:12At the beginning of the season I had already announced that it would be my last season as a collaborator,

02:20because I felt the desire to face my responsibilities in a more direct way.

02:26It comes at a time, in a situation, that sees me in an area that I know,

02:33because I know Milan well.

02:35I hope to be able to pass on to the boys those values that allowed me to stay at Milan for so long.

02:43The added value is that I have lived these guys who sporadically trained with us

02:51and they also had the chance to develop, to have a more confidential relationship with them,

02:58to know them in those facets that a coach may not be able to have in the first place.

03:05I hope that this can be the advantage that I can have with them,

03:11and the trust that they can have in me.

03:15I saw Milan from the outside, before I arrived, as a dream.

03:20When I arrived, I understood why a player, when he left Milan, knew he was leaving something magical.

03:30So, without naming names or who left me something,

03:35all the coaches I've had left me something, but I'm not just talking about Milan.

03:39But I believe that the environment in which you are, in short,

03:42shapes you in a certain way, with values, and I believe that Milan is special in this.

03:47The intention is to have a synergy,

03:50a group of players that doesn't stop at 20 or 25 players from the first team,

03:55but that is much wider.

03:58I believe that synergy should be there from the beginning,

04:03and I believe that in this the support of the club and above all the input of the club is clear,

04:09it is clear to the coach and to me.

04:12So, we should be able to integrate a new reality with the one that already exists.

04:18As a consequence, in the spring, the players should be able to compare themselves

04:24with a category that is already a bit higher than the spring.

04:29I am a dreamer, obviously the goal is to make sure that many players

04:33who will start with me at the end of the year are in the first team.

04:36I think this is my dream, but also the goal of the club,

04:40so both things have to be tested.

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